Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to The Diary Keepers author Nina Siegal about the moral murkiness of Dutch complicity in the Nazi persecution of […]…
The kernel for what would become The Woman with the Cure came to me back in 2015, while on my Friday walks with Albert Sabin biographer, Karen Torghele, who was then working as an oral historian for the Centers for Disease Control. It was Karen, with her eye-popping tales of public health pioneers, who whetted […]…
Here’s a weird thing about some kinds of figs: there are male and female figs. The fig is an inverted flower, which needs to be pollinated to make the fig fruit that we eat. There are male and female fig wasps. The female fig wasp burrows into the male fig, called the caprifig, and the […]…
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to the co-author of The Big Myth, Erik Conway, about how American business taught us to loathe government and […]…
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to Meganets author David Auerbach on how digital forces beyond our control are commandeering our daily lives and inner […]…
Polyglot texts — texts that use many languages — have become increasingly common as writers document struggles between regimes of European hegemony and decolonizing movements….
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s novel Promise, which Danielle Evans calls “a stunning exploration of the weight and triumph of legacy” and which will be published by Random House in July. Here’s some more about the book from the publisher: The Kindred sisters—Ezra and Cinthy—have grown up with […]…
Abridged family versions of classic works aimed at children were published throughout the 20th century….
After Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurtry died in 2021, his bookstore in Archer City, Texas, was turned over to the long-term store manager, Khristal Merklin. But as CNN reports, in November 2022, the deed was snapped up by Fixer Upper’s Chip Gaines. Will Gaines tear out the bookshelves and cover the store in shiplap, or […]…
“They are as welcome as a letter from home. They are as popular as pin-up girls.” How paperbacks distributed to WWII soldiers became a lifeline—and created a generation of readers. | Lit Hub History Gulchehra Hoja recounts life under Chinese rule for the Uyghurs. | Lit Hub 7 books about messy, (es)strange(d), surreal families. | […]…
